SGC card returned as likely trimmed. Help me understand.

[luciobar1980]

Originally Posted by bobbyw8469

The card needs to be square. Yes, it can be creased all to hell.....but if there are a chunk of card missing where it is no longer having an outline, then you won't get a grade. For example, there was an absolute beauty of a 1954 Hank Aaron rookie card in last Weds HUggins and Scott auction. It was missing a corner. Around the size of a nickle.....totally gone. That card would be authentic only as well....and I would love to have had it. I hate that you wasted your money like that, but that was the obviously outcome. You should have gotten it slabbed.

Yeah, total waste of money.

See, that wasn't clear to me and still doesn't really make sense to me in my mind. It's sort of a gray area to me. Where does it say a missing piece automatically makes the card ungradeable?

Here's 2 extreme examples:

a) You have an absolutely pristine card except it's missing a corner, nice and evenly cut. That card is ungradeable

b) you have a "complete" card that has been creased to hell, run over, dirty. This card is gradeable?

I dunno, it seems sort of arbitrary to me.